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A north–south wide-angle fan-profile through the Yarlung Zangbo suture, across the Lhasa block and through the Bangong-Nujiang suture shows several significant and sharp changes in crustal thickness. Both sutures appear as vertical 20-km steps in the Moho and may have been the loci for eastward strike-slip motion of the Tibetan lithosphere.
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Hirn, A., Nercessian, A., Sapin, M. et al. Lhasa block and bordering sutures— a continuation of a 500-km Moho traverse through Tibet. Nature 307, 25–27 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1038/307025a0
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